Words.
"...The challenge now, at a time when 40 percent of all wealth goes to 1 percent of the population, is to see if national policy can really do something to revert middle-class losses. I get tired of hearing about how countries like Sweden, Norway or Canada are so much ahead of us in taking care of their own. Agreed. But there are more people in just two of our states together, Texas and California, than in all three of those nations combined.
Anybody can form a perfect Norway, a nation of five million people. But there is no country on earth with our size, our racial diversity, our mix of religions that is close to bringing most of its citizens the rights and comforts of the modern age. Health care was always the big asterisk, and now, with Obama’s re-election, this “right,” as Franklin Roosevelt called it, is extended within our borders.
Those who see nothing but decline, loss and failure in Tuesday’s results, those who see a victory for “the transfer-payment state,” and the “entitlement mentality,” miss the point. The winner on Tuesday was the Great Experiment, given fresh life."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Great Experiment
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